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# Cleaning of a Venetian canal in 1956 and the depth of Venice's canals
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/bez-vody-venetsiia-vygliadit-ne-ochen/
- Published: 2022-06-10T06:09:01.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:00:25.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Geography, Observations

Without its water, Venice does not look its best...

1956: one of the Venetian canals being cleared.

Yes, many of Venice's canals are not deep at all, a metre and a half to two at most; the deepest canal reaches 10 metres, and the deepest part of the entire lagoon is about 50 metres.